Showing posts with label American gun deaths since Newtown compared to war casualties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American gun deaths since Newtown compared to war casualties. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Congratulations America

++In the 18 months since Newtown,there has been a school shooting every month. Today's was in Oregon.

++Since the murders at Sandy Hook,there have been 46,000 gun deaths in America. 

++To give you some idea what that means. In 18 months, 10,000 more Americans have died by gunfire than in the entire Korean War (1950-53).

++Or the killings in 18 months fall 12,000 short of the American deaths in the entire Vietnam War (1955-75).

++Or about Americans who died in 18 months is about 7 times the American deaths in nearly twenty years of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

++Or Americans that died since Newtown exceed the battle casualties of: the Spanish-American war,Phillippine-American war in the 19th century,Grenada,the Panama Invasion,Somalia,the Gulf War,Afghanistan and Iraq Combined by a factor of 2.